Environment & Climate
The Organic Revolution: Change the System, Not the Climate
What if there were an organic technology that could cut greenhouse emissions in half and literally suck down and sequester carbon dioxide in living soil - bringing the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere down to 350 ppm - the level scientists warn us we must acheive in order to avert a climate catastrophe?
Cook Organic, Not the Planet. Boycott Factory-Farmed Foods.
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July 15, 2006
WASHINGTON, DC, (ENS) - Cars, not people, will claim most of the increase in world grain consumption this year. The U.S. Department of Agriculture projects that world grain use will grow by 20 million tons in 2006. Of this, 14 million tons will be used to produce fuel for cars in the United States, leaving only six million tons to satisfy the world's growing food needs.
In agricultural terms, the world appetite for automotive fuel is insatiable. The grain required to fill a 25 gallon SUV gas tank with ethanol will feed one person for a year. The grain to fill the tank every two Read more
In agricultural terms, the world appetite for automotive fuel is insatiable. The grain required to fill a 25 gallon SUV gas tank with ethanol will feed one person for a year. The grain to fill the tank every two Read more
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July 14, 2006
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Worldwatch Institute Releases Report: Vital Signs 2006 - 2007 http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4345 . Press release by Worldwatch Institute, July 12, 2006. "Economic Gains Mask Underlying CrisisS Nearly 80 percent of the world's energy comes fromS fossil fuelsS [which] continued to rise despite soaring energy prices over the past two years: in 2004, coal use jumped 6.3 percent and natural gas consumption rose Read more
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July 13, 2006
Washington -- House Republicans are pushing new legislation that could wipe out the ability of California and other states to ban or strictly limit the use of pesticides and toxic industrial chemicals that can jeopardize human health.
The measure, approved by a House committee Wednesday on a mostly party line vote, is the latest effort by the Republican-led Congress to block states from enacting environmental, public health or consumer protections that are more stringent than federal standards.
The bill could override a new California law to ban the use of brominated Read more
The measure, approved by a House committee Wednesday on a mostly party line vote, is the latest effort by the Republican-led Congress to block states from enacting environmental, public health or consumer protections that are more stringent than federal standards.
The bill could override a new California law to ban the use of brominated Read more
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July 13, 2006
Six years after he lost his bid for the White House, Al Gore, the former U.S. vice-president, has returned to the national stage, but this time as a champion of the movement to fight global climate change.
A longtime environmentalist and vice-president during the Bill Clinton administration (Democrat) from 1993 to 2001, Gore is now trying to build a mass movement across the United States to force the political establishment in Washington to rethink its policy on climate change.
Since the release last month of his documentary film, "An Inconvenient Truth," which warns of Read more
A longtime environmentalist and vice-president during the Bill Clinton administration (Democrat) from 1993 to 2001, Gore is now trying to build a mass movement across the United States to force the political establishment in Washington to rethink its policy on climate change.
Since the release last month of his documentary film, "An Inconvenient Truth," which warns of Read more
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July 13, 2006
PRESS RELEASE JULY 13, 2006
CONTACT: Environmental Working Group Lauren Sucher, EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Danielle Fugere, Bluewater Network, (415) 544-0790
WASHINGTON - July 13 - The U.S. would reduce oil imports by 20 percent if auto companies met mileage standards using realistic driving tests according to a new analysis by Environmental Working Group (EWG).
That's a savings of 710 million barrels of oil per year more than 1.3 times the 525 million barrels that the nation imported from Saudi Arabia last year.
Consumer concern is rising Read more
CONTACT: Environmental Working Group Lauren Sucher, EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Danielle Fugere, Bluewater Network, (415) 544-0790
WASHINGTON - July 13 - The U.S. would reduce oil imports by 20 percent if auto companies met mileage standards using realistic driving tests according to a new analysis by Environmental Working Group (EWG).
That's a savings of 710 million barrels of oil per year more than 1.3 times the 525 million barrels that the nation imported from Saudi Arabia last year.
Consumer concern is rising Read more
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July 13, 2006
Global Warming, Africa and the G8 http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1174080.ece
Andrew Grice,
The Independent (UK),
July 13, 2006.
"Climate change could have a devastating impact on Africa, wiping out all the benefits from the measures to help the continent agreed by the world's richest nations last year. The warning will be issued by the British Government today when it announces plans to bring poor countries into the next round of international discussions to combat Read more
Andrew Grice,
The Independent (UK),
July 13, 2006.
"Climate change could have a devastating impact on Africa, wiping out all the benefits from the measures to help the continent agreed by the world's richest nations last year. The warning will be issued by the British Government today when it announces plans to bring poor countries into the next round of international discussions to combat Read more
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July 11, 2006
Aw, Shucks
Ethanol ain't all it's cracked up to be, new study says
A new study casts serious doubt on ethanol's status as a green wonder-fuel. In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers lay out a series of grim findings about corn-based biofuel. Runoff from large-scale corn cultivation contaminates waterways with nitrogen, phosphorus, and pesticides. As a motor fuel, corn-based ethanol generates just 23 percent more energy than is required to make it. And finally, corny ethanol reduces greenhouse-gas emissions by a slim 12 percent over gasoline. The Read more
Ethanol ain't all it's cracked up to be, new study says
A new study casts serious doubt on ethanol's status as a green wonder-fuel. In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers lay out a series of grim findings about corn-based biofuel. Runoff from large-scale corn cultivation contaminates waterways with nitrogen, phosphorus, and pesticides. As a motor fuel, corn-based ethanol generates just 23 percent more energy than is required to make it. And finally, corny ethanol reduces greenhouse-gas emissions by a slim 12 percent over gasoline. The Read more
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July 10, 2006
SEATTLE, Washington, July 10, 2006 (ENS) - Home and garden stores on the West Coast are now required to post signs warning customers of the dangers to salmon posed by seven common pesticides that run off the land into waterways.
All pesticides with the ingredients malathion, carbaryl, 2,4-D, diazinon, diuron, triclopyr, or trifluralin must carry the warning, according to court order. The consumer education campaign targets hundreds of products containing seven pesticides that contaminate urban streams, and can harm salmon or salmon habitat.
The warning reads, "SALMON Read more
All pesticides with the ingredients malathion, carbaryl, 2,4-D, diazinon, diuron, triclopyr, or trifluralin must carry the warning, according to court order. The consumer education campaign targets hundreds of products containing seven pesticides that contaminate urban streams, and can harm salmon or salmon habitat.
The warning reads, "SALMON Read more
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July 10, 2006
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115154654862893860.html?mod=todays_us_page_ one , writing in today's Wall Street Journal, reported that, "The effort to make cellulosic ethanol into a full-blown power source to run America's cars is embryonic, and its outcome uncertain. But the fuel has two big things going for it: High oil prices and backing from the Bush administration, which sees it as a potentially important part of future energy supplies and is putting up money to help launch the first Read more
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Newsweek
Going Green With windmills, low-energy homes, new forms of recycling and fuel-efficient cars, Americans are taking conservation into their own hands. By Jerry Adler Newsweek July 17, 2006 issue -
One morning last week ... 29 years after president Jimmy Carter declared energy conservation "the moral equivalent of war" ... 37 years after the first reference to the "greenhouse effect" in The New York Times ... one day after oil prices hit a record peak of more than $75 per barrel ... Kelley Howell, a 38-year-old architect, got on her bicycle a little after 5 a.m. and rode 7.9 miles Read more
One morning last week ... 29 years after president Jimmy Carter declared energy conservation "the moral equivalent of war" ... 37 years after the first reference to the "greenhouse effect" in The New York Times ... one day after oil prices hit a record peak of more than $75 per barrel ... Kelley Howell, a 38-year-old architect, got on her bicycle a little after 5 a.m. and rode 7.9 miles Read more
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